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DEMAND SCHEDULE: A table that illustrates the alternative quantities of a commodity demanded at different prices.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 5: Investment
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Scarcity is THE economic problem. Investment in capital goods is the source of economic growth and progress that lessens the scarcity problem.- Some investment is good, but lot of investment is not necessarily better.
- If we produce only capital goods and no consumption goods, eventually, with no consumption, people would die.
- The trick is to strike a balance between capital goods and consumption goods.
- Answering this question puts us into the realm of normative economics.
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ABSTRACTION Simplifying the complexities of the real world by ignoring (hopefully) unimportant details while doing economic analysis. Abstraction is an essential feature of the scientific method. Hypothesis verification, model construction, and comparative static analysis are not possible without abstraction.
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Woodrow Wilson's portrait adorned the $100,000 bill that was removed from circulation in 1929. Woodrow Wilson was removed from circulation in 1924.
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"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. " -- Lee Iacocca
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Aggregate Supply-Aggregate Demand Model
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